1.This isn't photoshop — it's the Sendai Daikannon, the fifth-tallest statue in the world:
2.Speaking of big, giant things, this is the Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature to have ever existed:
3.And this is how big a blue whale's heart is compared with a human being:
4.This picture of a hairless chimpanzee really demonstrates just how absolutely yoked chimps are:
5.Here's one more look at a jacked chimpanzee, because you deserve it:
6.These are the astronauts NASA is sending to the moon in 2024, the first time anyone will have been to the moon in over 50 years:
7.Speaking of which, this is Harrison Schmitt, one of four living men to have set foot on the moon's surface, and the one who did it most recently:
8.Here's another picture of Schmitt walking on the moon:
9.This was the menu served to the third-class passengers aboard the Titanic on the day the ship sank:
10.This is a statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, that was found inside the pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb:
11.And here's what the statue looks like today:
12.This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:
13.Speaking of lumber, one of the more creative ways bootleggers would hide alcohol during Prohibition was inside trucks lined with wood, complete with a tiny trapdoor:
14.These are the contestants in the 1930 Miss Lovely Eyes beauty pageant, a contest where woman had to wear an absolutely terrifying mask so that only her eyes were visible:
15.The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over 3,000 people. In the aftermath of the disaster, you could literally see where the Earth split along the San Andreas Fault:
16.Here's another picture of a San Francisco street split in two:
17.This behemoth is the world's largest telescope, the FAST telescope located in China:
18.In 2010, 30 intact champagne bottles were found inside a ship that had sunk in the Baltic Sea more than two centuries before, around 1780:
19.The champagne inside was still good and apparently "had a very sweet taste" and a "strong tobacco smell":
20.This is what the "back" of the Hoover Dam looked like prior to being flooded with water:
21.And this is what that same side looks like today:
22.This picture, taken in 1947 inside the "tube room" at a Chicago department store, shows the incredibly complicated and intricate series of tubes that would transport money and other papers between departments:
23.And finally, on a lighter note, this is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in the early 1980s:
